A male lesser prairie chicken in front of a yucca cactus. The bird's main habitat is short and mid-grass prairie, often with yucca, sage and cactus. Farming, wind farms and oil production and ...

What a chicken-size bird can tell us about a shrinking prairie Scientists say the long-billed curlew’s movements inform research on grasslands health September 30, 2023 More than 1 year ago ...

The lesser prairie chicken, despite its name, has long been an important and iconic symbol of the Southwest's prairies and grasslands. Its shrinking population -- estimated to have once been in ...

Critters In Pursuit of Texas’s Rarest Bird, the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Fewer than 200 of the birds remain in the wild. Every spring, they put on a vibrant mating display.

One alternative in the plan would also place solar panels on known prairie chicken breeding sites, also known as dancing grounds or leks. The birds spread out from breeding sites as far as 2 miles ...

The lesser prairie chicken, known for the males’ quirky courtship dance, inhabits grasslands sought-after by farming and energy developers. By Catrin Einhorn The Trump administration has moved ...

It’s a display that almost disappeared decades ago when the greater prairie chicken population in Colorado dropped to just 600 birds. But the town of Wray wasn’t ready to give up.

It’s a display that almost disappeared decades ago when the greater prairie chicken population in Colorado dropped to just 600 birds. But the town of Wray wasn’t ready to give up.